PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The weather is warming, and that means the return of a program designed to link SEPTA with public parks. Getting to Green: Routes to Roots is back for its third year.
"Public art makes ideas visible, and our idea is getting to the park," said Shira Walinsky, an artist with Mural Arts Philadelphia. Walinsky and artist Laura Deutch created colorful printed guides that feature the SEPTA bus or trolley routes to parks.
"We have maps, a citywide map of routes to parks that also shows you what kind of birds am I going to see there? What kinds of wildlife are there? What kind of special trees or plants are there?" Walinsky told KYW Newsradio.
"If you're in Center City and you want to get to the Wissahickon, you can take Route 9, you can take Route 27, and suddenly you're in this other world — this beautiful world of a park," she said. "The [Bus Route] 25 goes all the way up by the Delaware River from South Philadelphia to Frankford Transit," she said. "From there, you can take the 84 and go all the way up and see the Delaware River up in Northeast Philly.”
Getting to Green is funded by a grant from the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission.
The maps are available at Jefferson Station, Cherry Street Pier and SEPTA headquarters.